What's in a Name?

Tractors named for g cities rarely prospered

Above: This Elgin tractor 9-18 model was eventually re-rated a 10-20.

Left: This photo shows the participants in the first annual Rock Island sales force school of instruction in 1920. Though the school was held in Minneapolis, the tractor was manufactured in, and named for, Rock Island, Ill.Above: This Minneapolis-Moline Z was run during the Albany (Minn.) Pioneer Days. This tractor is named after a pair of cities: Minneapolis and Moline, Ill.

Above: This 1919 Fairmont tractor was named for the city of its manufacture, Fairmont, Minn.

Above: The Peoria tractor, manufactured in Peoria, Ill., at a tractor contest in about 1918.